Soilmarks of possible Second World War Diver battery guns, east of Small Gains Farm, Foulness Island (EHER 82599)

Now destroyed. Four small areas of disturbed ground and debris are visible on aerial photographs taken in 1946. Their arrangement is characteristic of the layout of a Diver site, and as such, they may be associated with the Diver site immediately to the southeast (EHER 82598), perhaps indicating the gun positions were moved.

NRHE data transfer: The remains of the gun positions of a possible Diver type heavy anti-aircraft battery are visible on aerial photographs taken in 1946. Four small areas of disturbed ground and debris form a pattern characteristic of Diver battery and probably indicate the location of the guns. These could be part of the Diver site immediately to the southeast (EHER 82598), perhaps indicating the gun positions were moved. The Diver Strip was a defensive line of Heavy anti-aircraft (HAA) batteries that was constructed in September 1944 in order to combat the V1 flying bomb. The strip stretched from Clacton in Essex to Yarmouth in Norfolk. The site is centred at TQ 9739 9150. The remains were located on the southwestern side of Foulness Island in an area owned by the government and used during World War II by the Armament Research Department and subsequently by the Atomics Weapons Research Establishment (EHER 46720). <1> <2> NRHE summary description: The remains of the gun positions of a possible Diver type heavy anti-aircraft battery are visible on aerial photographs taken in 1946. Four small areas of disturbed ground and debris form a pattern characteristic of Diver battery and probably indicate the location of the guns. These could be part of the Diver site immediately to the southeast (EHER 82598), perhaps indicating the gun positions were moved. The Diver Strip was a defensive line of heavy anti-aircraft (HAA) batteries that was constructed in September 1944 in order to combat the V1 flying bomb. The strip stretched from Clacton in Essex to Yarmouth in Norfolk. The remains were located on the southwestern side of Foulness Island in an area owned by the government and used during World War II by the Armament Research Department and subsequently by the Atomics Weapons Research Establishment (EHER 46720).